A Pokémon collector was apparently so keen to catch ’em all that he forcibly cut the Pokémon off a 6-year-old girl’s clothing with scissors.

The incident began with a 6-year-old girl playing by her house in Yamagata prefecture. She was approached by two young men “with the air of highschoolers” on bicycles.

Saying “I’ll take these as mementos,” one of the pair used scissors to cut out the three Pocket Monsters on the girl’s T-shirt (not pictured), leaving her with a 10cm hole over her chest. The girl was unharmed.

The little girl reported the attack to her parents, and her father reported the matter to police. Police are treating the incident as a malicious prank and are looking for the suspects with a view to charging them with assault.

They have increased patrols in the area in case any more collectors appear.

It can't be helped when most likely the majority of policemen are like this asshole [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GgWrV8TcUc] instead of those fantasy handsome and well built hunks you see on TV series.

Police are pedos busting their psychological brethren on behalf of the fucked up, corrupt state.
Just read any newspaper article about a loli bust, these bastards get paid to look at loli porn and then instead of saying thank you, they turn around and charge the person with a crime because they got to look at it from that person's stash.
Lowest of the low, scum of the earth people. They don't go after the actual producer. They don't go after violent criminals, they look at loli porn all day in an attempt to entrap a pervert. Here is an example:

They are giving us Pokémon fans a bad name! And they are no Pokémon collectors if they are catching 'em wrong. A real Pokémon fan would've used a Loli Ball on the little girl to keep and train her well :3

Judging by the content of the comments, I guess this isn't being taken very seriously. But just for the record, the idea that these guys were "pokemon collectors" is just a fabrication by Sankaku Complex.

I expected when I clicked here that a collector actually stripped her of her shirt because he was a freakishly obsessed fan. But after reading the original source, the story is really nothing more than two punks picking on a girl who so happened to be wearing a pokemon shirt.

The fiends, the poor girl will be scarred for life having her pokeimen taken away in such a horrible fashion as being cut from her chest. May pokemen rain down uppon the poor girl in an amount that she forgets and of course, that those fiends don't see those too.

You severely overestimate the average high schoolers if you think they had even the slightest idea of what they were doing or the consequences of it. A reasonable person wouldn't risk capture and imprisonment over a few laughs.

Not that such a stupid prank could traumatize anyone by itself. Kid is far more likely to end up traumatized after a bunch of "oh-so-holy" adults repeatedly tell her she should feel very bad and traumatized about the event which inevitably happens when the words "child abuse" start to fly around.